Resource Library

A list of BLOOM's trusted resources for more information & support

Teen Featured
Beheroes411 App

Designed to address specific social, sexual, psychological, and safety situations that young people may face both online and off.

Game Quitters

Video game addiction support.

Center for Humane Technology

Driving a comprehensive shift toward humane technology that supports our well-being, democracy, and shared information environment.

NetSmartz®

Provides age-appropriate videos and activities to help teach children how to be safer online.

Queerly Autistic: The Ultimate Guide for LGBTQIA+ Teens on the Spectrum
By Erin Ekins

An honest guide for LGBTQIA+ autistic teens which gives you all the tools you need to figure out and explore your gender identity and sexuality.

Sex, Etc

Helping teens with answers to their question about sex, relationships, pregnancy, STDs, birth control, sexual orientation and more!

Advocates For Youth

Promotes effective adolescent reproductive and sexual health programs and policies necessary to create sexual health equity for all youth.

Sexuality and Relationship Education For Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders
By Davida Hartman

Offers practical teaching advice geared toward the needs of young people on the autism spectrum.

One Love

Provides tools and resources to recognize healthy and unhealthy relationships and bring life-saving prevention education to communities.

Reframing Our Stories

Provides sexual health education, resources, and tools for families and communities.

The National Domestic Violence Hotline

Provides 24/7 essential tools and support to help survivors of domestic violence.

Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN)

The largest anti-sexual violence organization in the United States.

Love is Respect

Offers resources, support, and advocacy aimed to disrupt and prevent unhealthy relationships and intimate partner violence.

interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth

Uses innovative legal and other strategies, to advocate for the human rights of children born with intersex traits.

Fenway Health

Delivers innovative, equitable, accessible health care, supportive services, and transformative research and education.

The Healthy Teen Cookbook: Around the World In 80 Fantastic Recipes
By Remmi Smith

A cookbook by a teen master chef, filled with tried-and-true recipes with budding chefs in mind.

EWG

Empowers people with breakthrough research to make informed choices and live a healthy life in a healthy environment.

Inner Dimension TV

A yoga and meditation studio all from the comfort of your own home.

Teen Safe

Provides educational materials to parents and adolescents to reduce risky behaviours and help promote healthy activities in teens.

The Trevor Project

A non-profit organization focused on suicide prevention efforts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth.

Psychology Today

Psychology Today is the world’s largest mental health and behavioral science site online.

Chopra App

A place to discover your unique mind-body type and unlock personalized meditation and well-being practices tailored just for you.

Insight Timer

Offers 100,000 free guided meditations for as long as you want without ever paying a cent.

Teen Tribe // Support Group

Teen Tribe provides peer-to-peer support groups for teens faced with mental health challenges and/or difficult family dynamics.

National Suicide Prevention Hotline

We can all help prevent suicide. The Lifeline provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress.

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)

The nation’s largest mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.

It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health
By Robie Harris

Providing young people the knowledge & vocabulary needed to understand their bodies, relationships, & identities in order to make responsible decisions.

Growing Up Great! The Ultimate Puberty Book for Boys
By Scott Todnem

An inclusive, body-positive guide to puberty for boys ages 8 to 14.

Celebrate Your Body 2: The Ultimate Puberty Book for Preteen and Teen Girls
By Sonya Renee Taylor

Celebrate your Body offers the support needed to navigate this whole puberty thing with confidence.

Changing Bodies, Changing Lives: A Book for Teens on Sex and Relationships (Expanded Third Edition)
By Ruth Bell Alexander

Gives teens a thoughtful, empathetic, and personal look at sex, relationships and the many ways puberty affects emotional and physical health.

The Every Body Book
By Rachel E. Simon and Noah Grigni

An illustrated LGBTQ+ inclusive kid’s guide to sex, gender, and relationships education.

The Talk Puberty App

Includes over 150 questions on the topic of puberty and growing up.

Young Men’s Health

Provides carefully researched health information to teenage boys and young men.

Center for Young Women’s Health

Helping girls, young women, their caregivers, educators, and health care providers improve their understanding of health and development.

Amaze

AMAZE takes the awkward out of sex ed. Real info in fun, animated videos that give you all the answers you actually want to know.

Teen
What’s Happening to Tom?
By Kate E. Reynolds

A book about puberty for boys and young men with autism and related conditions.

Sex, College, and Social Media: A Commonsense Guide to Navigating the Hookup Culture
By Cindy Pierce

Provides trustworthy answers for pressing questions about all aspects of the college social scene.

The Girls’ Guide to Sex Education
By Michelle Hope, M.A.

Over 100 honest answers to urgent questions about puberty, relationships, and growing up.

Whats Going On Down There: A Boy’s Guide to Growing Up
By Karen Gravelle

A detailed, informative text on sexual development, from physical changes to choices about sexual behavior.

Digital Life
Healthy Body
The Care and Keeping of You 2: The Body Book for Older Girls
By Cara Natterson

This book covers new questions about periods, your growing body, peer pressure, personal care, and more!

The Care and Keeping of You: The Body Book for Younger Girls
By Valorie Schaefer

A place to find answers about your changing body, from hair care to healthy eating, bad breath to bras, periods to pimples, and everything in between.

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Puberty―and Shouldn’t Be Googling: For Curious Boys
By Morris Katz

A fun, illustrated graphic novel that offers facts about developmental changes to tween and teen boys’ bodies and brains.

KidsHealth/ Nemours

A trusted source for physician-reviewed information and advice on children’s health and parenting issues.

Healthy Mind
Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self-esteem, and the Confidence Gap
By Peggy Orenstein

This groundbreaking book challenges us to change the way we raise and educate girls.

Body Drama: Real Girls, Real Bodies, Real Issues, Real Answers
By Nancy Amanda Redd

Physician-backed fast facts, FYIs, and how-tos about girls’ bodies.

Teen Esteem: A Self-Direction Manual for Young Adults
By Pat Palmer, Ed.D., and Melissa Alberti Froehner

Explores ways for young people to develop the skills they will need to navigate the teenage years.

Getting Better Bite by Bite
By Ulrike Schmidt, Janet Treasure, and June Alexander

An evidence-based step-by-step self-help program for bulimia sufferers.

Puberty
Relationships
Sexual Health
It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health
By Robie Harris

Providing young people the knowledge & vocabulary needed to understand their bodies, relationships, & identities in order to make responsible decisions.

HealthyChildren

Backed by pediatricians committed to optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all young adults.

Changing Bodies, Changing Lives: A Book for Teens on Sex and Relationships (Expanded Third Edition)
By Ruth Bell Alexander

Gives teens a thoughtful, empathetic, and personal look at sex, relationships and the many ways puberty affects emotional and physical health.

Amaze

AMAZE takes the awkward out of sex ed. Real info in fun, animated videos that give you all the answers you actually want to know.

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